On 03/04/2012 09:04 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 19:03 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >> >> On 03/04/2012 06:26 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: >>> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 17:58 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >>>> So to restate... this normalizing of the path names (aka striping >>>> multiple slashes or added the leading slash) only need to occur on >>>> (successful) v4 mounts... Although the former would not be an >>>> problem with v2/v3 mounts but its not needed.... >>> >>> Normalising for v4 only is OK as far as I'm concerned, but as an >>> alternative: is there any reason why you can't just grab the path from >>> '/proc/mounts'? >>> >> Well in some distros /etc/mtab is symbolically linked to /proc/mounts >> so this problem does not exist. But from what I've been told not >> all distros do that. Plus being backward compatible with older >> release of distro is a good thing... IMHO... > > Which is why I'm asking you if you can't copy from /proc/mounts. Distros > which already have a symlink betweek /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts don't > have any of these problems... > Personally I think it simpler to just normalize the paths before writing it to the mtab verses open up and searching /proc/mounts esp on client where there is large amount of mounts... steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
